Hoo boy: Nationals infielder Anthony Rendon, a .287 hitter with an .834 OPS as a 24-year-old, apparently feels baseball is an okay way to make a living. But he says he never watches any games when his team isn't playing because the sport is "too long and boring." (NBC''s Hardball Talk)

Today's Brandon Austin update: The talented forward, who was accused of sexual assault at both Providence College and Oregon in a span of five months, won't be attending Hutchinson Community College, after all. (NBC's College Basketball Talk)

Jonas Hiller, hoping to restart his career with the Flames after a disappointing stint in Anaheim, is hospitalized for appendicitis in Switzerland. The procedure, however, was said to be minor and he expects to make a speedy recovery. (NBC's Pro Hockey Talk)

Thomas Steen, former NHL star with the original Winnipeg Jets and father of the Blues' Alex Steen, spends a night in a Winnipeg jail after "communicating with a woman he was previously accused of assaulting." He still faces trial on the assault charge. (Pro Hockey Talk)

Lionel Hollins may not have meant to -- he gave it the obligatory "that’s not a knock on Memphis" -- but he probably burned some bridges to Tennessee when he said that, compared to New York (where he's now coaching the Nets), Memphis is "like back in the stone age." (Pro Basketball Talk)

Restricted free agent Eric Bledsoe never got a max offer from anyone because it was assumed Phoenix would simply match it. But negotiations between Bledsoe and the Suns are going nowhere, and now many teams don't have the cap space to make him a max offer. (Pro Basketball Talk)